Lesson Plan: What I Hope The Summer Holds for Me

Imaginative Thinking Assignment-
What I Hope the Summer Holds For Me

The following is the original lesson plan created for participants during the Emerging Technologies session. We offer this example as a very basic way of sharing the ideas and objectives behind student work in an online portfolio.

Length: 10-15 minutes

Objectives:

• Participants will use creativity to express their ideas
• Participants will create a piece of art
• Participants will brainstorm their hopes for the future

Materials needed: Misc. art supplies: paper, tape, scissors, marker, pens

Process:

1. As participants enter the room, ask them to consider the prompt: What I hope the summer holds for me.
2. Encourage participants to incorporate multiple modes of artistic expression: words, images, 3D paper folding, collaboration with a partner, etc.
3. Ask each participant to create a piece of art that expresses their hope for what the summer holds.
   

Evaluation:

Participants will display their art for others to view
Participants will evaluate one another's art for expressive qualities
Participants will use interview questions to examine their artistic process.

Portfolio building assignment:

Break into two groups; one for audio documentation and one for visual documentation. Decide as a group which art piece is the most thought-provoking. Each participant considers the work on their own, and develops an interview question for the chosen artist. Visual documentarians compose at least five shots that show the work and the artist's thinking. Audio documentarians interview the artist with a digital recorder. After digitizing the work, it is uploaded and the portfolio is discussed among the to the full group.

Illustration by: Johanna Kim